Scale Computing Assigned Patent

Scale Computing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, has been assigned a patent (10,089,011) developed by McVey, Clint, San Carlos, CA, and Loughmiller, Scott, San Francisco, CA, for a “zero memory buffer copying in a reliable distributed computing system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Reducing buffer space that is reserved when a VM attempts to write to disk. A shared memory maintains stored information available to all VM’s, allowing translation between accessible to RSD’s, independent of how that VM’s storage is divided into VSD’s. When a guest OS writes to a VSD, an ‘extent’, designating a location in the shared memory and amount of data to be transferred, which can be passed directly from the guest OS, through each element involved in translating the operation into one or more operations on RSD’s, keeping copying to a minimum. No substantial changes need be made to the guest OS.”

The patent application was filed on November 25, 2014 (14/554,012).